Selected papers from a conference held in 1991, sponsored by Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Includes bibliographical references.
Pt. 1: New methodological approaches -- Reading a text as discourse / J.P. Lowe -- Participant reference in Koine Greek narrative / Stephen H. Levinsohn -- Semantic paragraph patterns : a fundamental communication concept and interpretative tool / John C. Tuggy -- Constituent order in copula clauses : a partial study / John C. Callow -- Discourse analysis, synoptic criticism, and Markan grammar : some methodological considerations / David Alan Black -- Pt. 2: Applications to specific texts -- A tale of two debtors : on the interaction of text, cotext, and context in a New Testament dramatic narrative (Luke 7:36-50) / Ernst R. Wendland -- Oun, De, Kai, and asyndeton in John's gospel / Randall Buth -- The imperativals of Romans / Neva F. Miller -- The disappearing De in 1 Corinthians ; Patterns of thematic development in 1 Corinthians 5:1-13 / Kathleen Callow -- Dimensions of discourse structure : a multidimensional analysis of the components and transitions of Paul's Epistle to the Galatians / H. Van Dyke Parunak -- The function of Kai in the Greek New Testament and an application to 2 Peter / Kermit Titrud -- Towards an exegesis of 1 John based on the discourse analysis of the Greek text / Robert Longacre -- Discourse analysis and Jewish apocalyptic in the Epistle of Jude / Carroll D. Osburn.